Bird-Dinosaur Link Firmed Up, And in Brilliant Technicolor

By Richard Stone

Science29 Jan 2010 : 508

On page 571 of this week's issue of Science, paleontologists unveil Haplocheirus sollers, a new genus of alvarezsauroid—a group of dinosaurs once thought to be flightless birds. The nearly complete skeleton is about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

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Bird-Dinosaur Link Firmed Up, And in Brilliant Technicolor

By Richard Stone

Science29 Jan 2010 : 508

On page 571 of this week's issue of Science, paleontologists unveil Haplocheirus sollers, a new genus of alvarezsauroid—a group of dinosaurs once thought to be flightless birds. The nearly complete skeleton is about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.